"Kahvaltıda domates yerim."
Translation:I eat tomatoes at breakfast.
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The english translation is a bit weird for me. How would you say that "I eat tomatoes FOR breakfast"? That's much more natural, I'd like to know the turkish version, if someone can help me. :)
Thanks in advance!
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In Turkish, we don't say " for breakfast/lunch/dinner" etc. The natural way is to put it like "at breakfast/lunch/dinner" unlike English. :)
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Yeah, but that's not tge question, is it? The translation should be from good Turkish to good English, not an English approximation of what you would say in Turkish.
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I'm a native English speaker, "for breakfast", and "at breakfast", both sound fine to me. Breakfast is both a noun and an event.
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Yes for me "at breakfast" sounds old fashioned British. "I saw that chap at breakfast" but it sounds more unusual to describe consuming a food or ingredient of the meal with "at". It sounds like something I happened to eat during the event that was not part of the meal.
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If the translation is "I eat tomatoES at breakfast", why is it not domatesLER?
General direct objects in Turkish do not take the plural suffix. They are kept in their singular form.
Read this post carefully for more information: https://www.duolingo.com/comment/7736911
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For me the real issue here is that for some reason "At breakfast I eat tomato" is not accepted as correct. Does this mean that the Turkish sentence must be understood as referring to a specific instance of breakfast? If not, I think my variant is idiomatic enough in English (for a general statement about eating tomato for breakfast) to be accepted.
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Kahvaltı => kahve + altı => coffee + six => coffee at six => breakfast. I'm not sure if this "decoding" is correct, but it helped me to memorize the word.
It is not correct, but it is helps you remember! It is actually "kahve + alt" (alt used to be used for "before" in some contexts). It literally means "before coffee" :)
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as a side note, this is because Turkish coffee is drunk after breakfast, although in most cultures people drink coffee during their breakfast.
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Oddly I don't recall ever having coffee any time I've been in Turkey, other than maybe at Gloria Jeans's in Istanbul. When I was anywhere else or with Turkish people it's always tea tea tea these days.
In Armenia and Greece I had coffee and the locals didn't always look happy when I described their style of coffee as "Turkish coffee" which we call it in Australia (-:
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Does kavaltı end with ı because it is a compound noun or does the word just end with ı or perhaps I'm missing something ?
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it would be nice if the variation 'at breakfast I eat tomatos' would be also accepted as a correct answer.
Feel free to report it. In general, we were on the more conservative side with accepting these so that people would be sure to learn the word order in Turkish, in which most of the time locatives come towards the front. We want to make sure that people understand this instead of having a non-regular (but totally valid) English word order. I/We are thinking about it.
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Thanks for your answer - I see your point, it might be more important to really stress the differnces in the word order to learn it all correctly.
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"I am eating" is present continuous tense. In the Turkish sentence, it would be "yiyorum" instead of "yerim". :-)
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there is no difference between singular and plural -.- so why is it rong to write the singular one ??????